Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIn 1952, Warner Bros. released a version of “The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima” that boasted “To the best of human knowledge, and according to the testimony of 100,000 witnesses… This Is A True Story!” That film, hokey in some ways, inspirational in others, purported to be a fact-based account of a faith-based story, one which occurred in 1917 against the backdrop of a world war, wherein three Portuguese shepherd children experienced several visits by the Virgin Mary, who bestowed certain insights upon them before unleashing a spectacular solar light show so as to convince all those assembled.Director Marco Pontecorvo revisits these events in the superficially suspicious “Fatima,” which arrives at a moment.
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